{"title":"The governance of vulnerable migrants: procedure, resources and affect in asylum reception","authors":"Sophie Andreetta, Sophie Nakueira","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2137942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2137942","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores how vulnerability is understood, appropriated and translated into procedural regulations and actual bureaucratic practices based on two case studies: 1) the reception of asylum seekers in Belgium; and 2) the reception of asylum seekers and provision of aid services in humanitarian operations in Uganda. These two cases demonstrate that ‘vulnerable groups’ and the corresponding procedural and substantial safeguards or protections are often defined flexibly, depending on the resources available to public institutions on the one hand, and specific agency guidelines and definitions of ‘vulnerable’ status on the other. Our ethnographic data show that reception bureaucrats are uncomfortably wedged between their desire to help and their obligation to follow state policies. To reconcile these (sometimes contradictory) obligations, they break administrative guidelines, use their own resources to make up for the shortcomings of their institution, or systematically decline migrants’ requests in the hope of demonstrating the absurdity of current reception policies.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"961 - 977"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47101953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Roos-Marie van den Bogaard, Ana Correia Horta, Wout Van Doren, Ellen Desmet, A. Valcke
{"title":"Procedural (in)justice for EU citizens moving to Belgium: an inquiry into municipal registration practices","authors":"Roos-Marie van den Bogaard, Ana Correia Horta, Wout Van Doren, Ellen Desmet, A. Valcke","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2137944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2137944","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Moving as a French or Dutch citizen to Belgium should be easy, given the freedom of movement of EU citizens. Reality paints a different picture, however. This paper analyses the practices of Belgian municipalities and the Immigration Office as to the registration of EU workers, self-employed, jobseekers and their family members. It is based on a desk study, a survey among a sample of municipalities as well as semi-structured interviews with municipal officials, the Immigration Office and other stakeholders. The paper adopts a legal understanding of ‘procedural justice’, focusing on dimensions of equal treatment and transparency. It shows that the achievement of procedural justice for EU citizens is impaired by divergent and at times questionable practices by street-level bureaucrats. These practices indicate, among others, that varying levels of ‘deservingness’ of residence in Belgium can be observed within the category of mobile EU workers. Furthermore, increased digitalization and the use of intermediaries in the registration procedure facilitate and reinforce differential treatments among EU citizens and their family members.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"995 - 1010"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41687243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sophie Andreetta, Larissa Vetters, Zeynep Yanaşmayan
{"title":"The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship","authors":"Sophie Andreetta, Larissa Vetters, Zeynep Yanaşmayan","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2138178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2138178","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent advances in citizenship and migration studies have demonstrated the need to explore noncitizens’ social, political and legal relationships to the state in their own right. Such a rethinking inevitably requires analysing how both ‘citizenship’ and ‘the state’ are enacted and performed in the negotiation of substantive rights. This special issue follows an unexplored path by scrutinizing these interactions between ‘citizenship’ and ‘stateness’ in the domain of procedural law, procedural safeguards, and perceptions of procedural justice among a variety of actors. The contributions explore empirically how procedural rules are invoked, altered, disregarded, or reinvented in different sites of interaction, ranging from asylum determination and adjudication to immigration and municipal registration offices. This interactionist approach not only recasts procedural rules as an integral part of citizenship struggles, thereby shedding light on the co-constitution of state and noncitizenship, but also stresses the importance of nuanced analyses of the nexus between procedural and substantive rights.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"893 - 909"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44498054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transcending non-citizenship? Looking at asylum policy through the lens of a child-centred approach and the procedural justice perspective","authors":"Barbara Gornik","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2137943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2137943","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Based on field research with asylum-seeking children in reception centres, the article looks at the situation of unaccompanied minor migrants in Slovenia through the lens of the child-centred approach and from a procedural justice perspective. Initially it highlights the commonalities between procedural justice and the child-centred approach in terms of voice, dignity and respect and impartial decision-making, and thereafter describes migrants’ perceptions and experiences of asylum reception and determination procedures from the perspective of the child-centred approach and procedural justice. Interviews with unaccompanied migrant minors revealed that their experiences of reception and the asylum process were most influenced by respect for dignity and voice. Finally, the article discusses the relevance of the child-centred approach to the inclusion of non-citizen children at the intersection of different rights regimes.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"978 - 994"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46422100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making sense of noncitizens’ rights claims in asylum appeal hearings: practices and sentiments of procedural justice among German administrative judges","authors":"Larissa Vetters","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2137940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2137940","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Ethnographically exploring how German judges in administrative courts of first instance navigate the practical, political, legal and ethical dilemmas of deciding on asylum appeals, this article identifies the oral hearing in asylum adjudication as a site of citizenship struggles in which rights claims by noncitizens undergo subtle transformations through the manner in which procedural rules are interpreted and enacted. Building on observations of asylum appeal hearings, conversations and focus group discussions with judges, I show that practices and sentiments of procedural justice among asylum appeal judges are at the core of these transformations. Hence, I argue for renewed analytical and conceptual attention to citizenship struggles that take place in webs of social relations within the realm of state law and across a graduated set of formal legal statuses for noncitizens.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"927 - 943"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43386809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The invisible hard work of retrieving papers: Syrians and the paradoxes of integration in Germany","authors":"V. Ferreri","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2103973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2103973","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Seemingly mundane bureaucratic papers – such as birth and marriage certificates – are official proof of legal identities and relations to kin, usually issued by the state of origin. For Syrians who have sought asylum in Germany, these documents are necessary during the asylum procedure and beyond, for certain bureaucratic procedures and the recording of crucial life events. Retracing the crafting of these documents in Syria, and their encounter with German bureaucracy, captures the depth of the entanglement between the Syrian and German citizenship regimes, as well as their discrepancies in relation to paperwork and legality. Drawing on ethnographic research with Syrians in Lebanon and in Germany, this article argues that the legal production of legality in Germany can only be achieved through legally ambiguous, if not so-called illegal, practices in Syria.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"816 - 833"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43103478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The symbiosis of state and citizens: Yan Fu’s transformation of Chinese citizenship idea","authors":"S. Zhang","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2109597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2109597","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article traces the Chinese conception of citizenship in imperial China and its modern transformation by looking into the socio-political thought of modern Chinese intellectual Yan Fu (1854–1921). It begins with an analysis of the Confucian-Legalist ruler-ruled relationship in imperial Chinese history, arguing that it is characterized by a hierarchical order among four different social groups to which Chinese are divided and collectively belong. After depicting the historical context of late Qing China in which Yan plays a vital role, the article further discusses Yan Fu’s transformation of Chinese citizenship idea based on cultural integration between Western and Chinese political thought. It introduces the idea of ‘symbiosis of the state and citizens’ to illustrate Yan’s vision of the Chinese citizenship model. The symbiotic relationship is characterized by 1), the endorsement of the liberty of individual min as citizens and the democracy of the state; 2), the interdependence and reciprocity between citizens and the Chinese state.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"81 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43082840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Citizenship as Burden of Proof: Voting and Hiding Among Migrants from India’s Eastern Borderlands","authors":"Lucy Dubochet","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2109598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2109598","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Millions of people from India’s northeastern state of Assam have to defend themselves against suspicions that they are illegal migrants from neighboring Bangladesh. I explore how one such group of individuals, who work as waste pickers in Delhi, protect their citizenship against the combined vulnerabilities of being Assamese, Muslim, and residents of an unauthorized slum. I show that they develop a split relation with the government, defined by a costly requirement to vote in their borderland villages, and by avoidance for all matters linked to everyday life. By working hard in an occupation shunned by everyone else, they seem to uphold this citizenship of extraordinary political obligation and minimal entitlement. But when this equilibrium unravels around the debt that they contract to pay for basic services and for the trip home to cast their ballot, the price of their condition determined by suspicion, is revealed.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"107 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42477341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘The world we share’: everyday relations and the political consequences of refugee-refugee hosting in Amman, Jordan","authors":"Zoe Jordan","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2103976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2103976","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Male, Sudanese experiences of displacement in Amman, Jordan are characterised by the exclusions of state and international humanitarian response bureaucracies, and compounded by pervasive racial discrimination and violence. As part of their efforts to maintain their presence in the city, the men have created household-level hosting relationships, based on a situated ethics of care developed through shared understandings and experiences of displacement and a recognition of their interdependence. Through these personal relations, the men inhabit the city and offer one another some safety from the uncertain and hostile context of their displacement in Jordan. Hosting arrangements are not merely convenient or functionally necessary in the difficult circumstances of displacement, but produce new ways of being together and serve as sites for the enactment of social rights and claims to presence. As such, refugee-refugee hosting practices hold the potential for lived citizenship, enacted through everyday and ordinary acts of care.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"868 - 884"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45453534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Migrations through Law, Bureaucracy and Kin: Navigating Citizenship in Relations","authors":"Magdalena Suerbaum, Sophie Richter-Devroe","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2103967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2103967","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This Special Issue analyses how forced migrants’ and non-citizens’ kinning and de-kinning practices and their struggles of ‘doing family’ constitute navigations of citizenship. Forced migrants and non-citizens need to manoeuvre an intersecting net of different bureaucratic, political and legal, but also kin-related social and cultural regimes. In their encounters with state authorities, bureaucrats, and humanitarian workers, and through the material cultures these engender, forced migrants and non-citizens are marked and categorised – often with wide-ranging consequences for themselves and their significant others. This Special Issue traces how legal and bureaucratic inscriptions derive from, but also shape forced migrants’ and non-citizens’ familial status and intimate ties to fictive, legal or consanguineal kin. Centring on migration and displacement to and in Europe and the Middle East, we combine analytical debates from anthropology, gender, migration and citizenship studies. Collectively, this Special Issue suggests that the nation-state and its migration regime are experienced in relational ways, and impact on migrants’ ability to care for and be in relation with significant others.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"727 - 745"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48989207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}